Elder Ted N.C. Wilson has just been nominated and elected president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (the morning of June 25, 2010). From a source inside the nominating committee, we have been told that the vote was overwhelming – on the very first ballot. Our prayers are with you Elder Wilson as you…
June 21, 2010 Pacific Union Conference Officers Post Office Box 5005 Westlake Village, CA 91359 La Sierra University Board of Trustees 4500 Riverwalk Parkway Riverside, CA 92515 Dear Friends, Our hearts and voices are continually lifted up in prayer for you as you wrestle with the very sensitive and difficult issues at La Sierra. Our…
A number of news sources have reported that theologian and evolutionist Bruce K. Waltke has left his position at the Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando) because of his stand on evolution. A video was recently published showing the noted evangelical scholar endorsing mainstream evolutionary theory. He also said that evangelical Christianity could face a crisis for…
In 2003 the Adventist Review published a very controversial article by Clifford Goldstein titled, “Seventh-day Darwinians.” This strongly worded article seemed to slip through the vetting cracks and ended up causing a great deal of heated debate within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, especially at our academic institutions like La Sierra University and Loma Linda University. Now…
What About Academic Freedom? A math teacher who said in an online survey that she did not believe in God has been fired by an Iowa Catholic school after her views were discovered on her Facebook profile and after officials found she had posted a comment at an atheist website. Last August the teacher, 27-year-old…